Akai S3000XL - Roland Juno-106 - Mental Atmosphere

Published on Jul 29, 2014 Jim Atwood

"Had fun again this evening with the Akai S3000XL ( Controlled by the Roland Fantom X6 ). I basically threw a couple of very very old samples into the Akai after chopping them up in Recycle on my Win98 machine. I then sequenced a groove on the MC-909 externally triggering the Roland D-550, SH-101, and MKS-50 Synthesizers. The Boss RC-300 is playing a recorded drum pattern. Everything on the Juno-106 and Akai S3000XL was improvised. Thanks for watching."

ELECTRIC HARD N HEAVY

Published on Jul 29, 2014 Nosrat Charkhi

"Noston Playing The Dark Beast Modular"

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Reactable Sessions - Gersound

Published on Jul 29, 2014 Reactable Systems

"Reactable Session with Gersound in Barcelona in July 2014.

The second #Reactable Session of a series, stay tuned!
If you happen to be a musician coming to Barcelona with an itch to jam with Reactable, get in touch with us!
info @ reactable.com

Get Reactable for your mobile devices:
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More info about Reactable Mobile: http://bit.ly/1fTHS5P"

Roland TR-8 AIRA Firmware Update 1.1: New Features, Review & Instructions (1440p)

Published on Jul 29, 2014 massivebeatzz

Roland Aira's on eBay

"So Roland finally released its first firmware update for the TR-8 (and the rest of the AIRA product line) adding many awaited features to the highly praised TR-808/909 drum machine emulator.
What's new in update version 1.1 you ask? Quite frankly, A LOT!

••HOTTEST NEW FEATURES :
-Manage your kit and pattern library with easy backup & restore over USB
-Edit both A and B parts without stopping the sequencer
-Lock the content of a pattern so you experiment with it without changing
-Scatter will enable for one cycle and then automatically disengage

••MIDI MATURES AT LAST:
-MIDI velocity is variable by the accent setting
-Local On/Off and MIDI Controller modes determine how MIDI data is sent and received
-Select kits using MIDI control change messages.
-Scatter On/Off, Type and Depth can be controlled via MIDI control change
-Record patterns in real-time from external MIDI devices.
-Disable sending of all MIDI messages
-Toggle whether or not TR-8 responds to PLAY/STOP messages

••WHAT ELSE?
-Customize kits by adjusting the gain of each instrument to suit your individual style
-Rolls are now easier to engage, offer more control, and sound better overall
-Alternate unlatched trigger mode engages only while “On” button is held down (really?)
-Get back in the groove by instantly starting a pattern from the top

••OMISSIONS?
There's two main ones in my book:
-For once being able to copy part A over to part B (or vice versa) of a Pattern is one of the most popular requests I found listening to forum discussions (and my personal #1). Indeed, making modifications of something that already works by copying & tweaking the copy is just second nature to most of us.
-Second, being able to change the sampling rate of the audio interface part (via USB) to something other than 96khz, such as 48khz and 44.1khz is needed. Building multiple (up to 14) audio tracks from the TR-8's streams will weigh in heavily on HD space and bus bandwith. And frankly, sometimes an existing project is already running at a lower sampling rate, so down sampling would occur anyways. Reduced latency might be another benefit of it!
Though it's wonderful to know that the internal SR is 96khz (big thumbs up for that) it's time to allow some flexibility in DAW mode!

••Conclusion?
Great to see that ROLAND is indeed taking user requests to heart, and - so far - not making it a "you bought it - we're done now" kind of product (abandonware). Lots of new features and fixes, so current owners see their investments protected, and potential buyers will get a cutting edge device when they buy! Way to go.

[Be sure to watch in 1440p or 1080p to enjoy the crystal clear rendered text and images we put up for ya!]

©Massivebeatz Productions 2014 (Massivebeatzz)
All Video / Audio content owned. All rights reserved."

Fun with the E-MU SP1200 by The Daydream Sound

Published on Jul 29, 2014 TheDaydreamSound

"House on the E-mu SP1200 all sounds re-sampled from the Roland MC303. Got so much inspiration from putting this together. I was about to erase it but pulled out a disk last minute and decided to save it. Enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by!

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HEXE Spacetime Resonator - delay sounds

Published on Jul 29, 2014 pz314

"This is my new experimental pedal designed to test a few new ideas like a flexible and assignable modulation blocks, versatile expression pedal functions. I needed a new delay pedal and wanted to incorporate the new features that will be present in the future designs. The video shows one of the operating modes: delay. The pedal can be switched to Reverb mode too. I'll show that in a separate video.
ONE OFF DEVELOPEMENT/PROTOTYPE DEVICE."

Do What You Can - The Shed Version

Published on Jul 29, 2014 Tony Horgan

"Korg Volca Keys, Roland TR-8, KaossPad Quad, live. It starts simply to illustrate how to add more notes to a Keys pattern using a delay effect, and also how to add some swing by offsetting the tempo of the delay. Stick with it :-)"

LinnStrument cover, expression data removed : The Choice

Published on Jul 28, 2014 Geert Bevin

"This is the same performance as in my other video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V9lI... [posted here], but without the per-note pitch bend and per-note pressure expression. You just hear the notes with velocity as you would from a regular MIDI keyboard. Some parts are of course not entirely correct anymore since the glissandos are gone. I considered editing the MIDI data, but decided to keep it a one-to-one translation instead.

I hope this allows you to evaluate how new expressive controllers are able to breathe life into a performance."

Kraftwerk - Trans Europe express COVER

Published on Jul 28, 2014 starshipfive

"No copyright infringement intended.
It's not quite like the original, neither is not intentend to be.

Sequenced parts sequenced on Cubase 5 (several VSTs were used) then audio mixdown passed to Roland SP-404.

Synhts used:
Korg T3ex Master Midi Keyboard
Roland JP-8000
Yamaha AN1x
Roland XP-60 with SR-JV Vintage Synth Board
Roland JV-2080 with SR-JV Vintage Synth Board
Roland V-Synth XT for vocoder sound"

Afraid to Dream of Tangerines

Published on Jul 28, 2014 Daniel Davis

"Another live jam/mix. I was going to end it about 6 minutes earlier, but I got in the mood to keep it going so I just started fiddling with the NL3 and improving with the Ultranova.

I really don't want to go to work tomorrow so I can stay up all night and jam. I'm really loving this configuration of synths. Probably the best I've ever worked with."